Games are recreational activities undertaken by the people distinct from the routine day to day activities. They are usually diversions that take away the boredom from the daily mundane activities. Most people play games as some sort of hobby in order to leave behind the worries of the boardroom and relax. Now a day€™s most corporate executives relax after work by playing a couple of rounds of golf.
There is also a serious side to games. There is a different kind of seriousness in the way that people exult in joy and fist pump after knocking off a couple of virtual monstrous opponents in computer or video games. However, this is not a new phenomenon, since the antiquity people realized the serious side to games. In Athens, the Greeks started the Olympic Games where participants would come together to compete for honour and glory. The trend continued in the modern times with the revival of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in the year 1896.
Games can be classified as indoor games or outdoor games, depending not where they are played but how much activity they require. One can play card games, usually played indoors while relaxing on a beach. Games can also be classified as single player or multi player depending on how people are participating. Most puzzles are single player games while games like tug of war require multiple participants. However, even though games are primarily recreational activities, there is usually a complex system of rules and regulations involved.

Games have not restricted themselves to just being indoors or outdoors in this age where everything is increasingly becoming digitalized, we have computer games. In fact, computer games are becoming more popular nowadays amongst children. There is also a huge market of computer games not only for adolescents and teenagers but also for adults.
However, computer games are not a recent phenomenon, it is the descendent of handheld electronic games and video games played on television. With the advent of computers and especially after computers became affordable by the average consumer, the popularity of virtual games rocketed. This has resulted in a whole generation of serious gamers for most of whom this has become a serious obsession. There are a lot of people among these serious gamers who have taken up gaming as a career like professional footballers and basketball players.
The virtual gaming industry is huge in its sheer economic size and it continues to grow day by day. There are people who are hired by these virtual gaming corporations simply to play and test these games all day long. There are shows on sports networks totally dedicated to the world of virtual games.
Computer games have in a certain way brought out the superstar in the average man. People who have never gripped a tennis racket stand the chance of winning a Wimbledon or a French Open in the virtual world. A lot of games can be played with people from all over the world on the internet.